Kelley Morse, who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with the residents of a small town near his posh private school. But Kelley is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
1 April 1952, Houston, Texas, USA
21 July 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
6 April 1955, Jasper, Alabama, USA
July 7, 1976 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
4 October 1952, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 March 1979, Hinsdale, Illinois, USA
30 November 1982, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
September 26, 1974 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
14 August 1953
19 October 1969, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
25 December 1946, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
28 December 1970, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
5 July 1981, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
10 June 1983, New York City, New York, USA
12 August 1956, Noranda, Québec, Canada
January 02, 2011
Contrived plot purposely pulls at heartstrings.January 01, 2000
Here on Earth is a missed opportunity.January 01, 2000
Dramatically, the tragedy couldn't possibly be flatter.January 01, 2000
For a movie about the ferocity of first love, it seems curiously pallid and passionless.January 01, 2000
Lazily conceived characters.January 01, 2000
Think Love Story, just without the story.January 01, 2000
[Director Mark Piznarski]should be cited for excessive use of slow motion, sun-dappled trees and golden light; one more cliche violation and his license to direct would be forfeit.March 14, 2001
Demonstrates the lowest, most unscrupulous technique of filmmaking -- it involves no imagination, creativity, or original ideas.June 20, 2002
This is just the type of "dignified" tragedy Louis B. Mayer loved to churn out in the 1940s, where characters - even the unsavory ones - acted so noble they practically turned to statues before your eyes.January 01, 2000
Here on Earth plods along predictably, hammering home its moral points and struggling to spin a spiritual haze around the kids' romance.January 01, 2000
On the bright side, Here on Earth does present viewers with a couple of handy rules to avoid bad movies. Beware of any movie that has characters reciting poetry to each other.January 01, 2000
Here on Earth hungers for the nostalgia of an Elia Kazan-style farmbelt romantic tragedy à la East of Eden, but the end result is more akin to a soggy Troy Donahue-Sandra Dee weeper.